Ozone
Depletion - A Closer Look
from Fascism, Environmentalism, and the Third Way
July 30, 2002
by
Bernard Switalski
Initial Publication Date: July 18, 2001
Editor's
Note: This article on ozone depletion, as well as separate
articles on global warming
and the dangerous roots of the
environmental movement, have been extracted from a
very comprehensive work by Bernard Switalski documenting
misinformation about global warming and ozone depletion as
part of an overall strategy by international socialists, fascists,
and "third way" proponents to seize power by creating public
fear about the environment.
Doomsday grifters have run their
scam a long time and they've never lacked for chumps to bamboozle.
Hark!! One fine day in the year 156 A.D., in Phrygia (now part
of Turkey), the prophet Montanus suddenly reeled round and round
and keeled over into a trance in which he envisioned Christ's
second coming and the end of the world. Thenceforward, Montanus
roamed the dusty paths of Asia Minor, proclaiming to all who
would listen that doomsday lay just round the bend. Montanus
gathered many disciples, among whom was one, Quintus Septimus
Florens Tertullianus, Tertullian went on to become a champion
of Monantism and a dynamic intellectual force and teacher in
the early Christian church.
At the core of Tertullian's
teachings lay his bitter admonition that life in the 2nd century
had become too extravagant, too wasteful, and that population
growth had run out of control. Mankind was raping the Earth
of its resources, he warned grimly "...we
men have actually become a burden to the Earth ... the Earth
can no longer support us...". And, to escape total planetary
destruction, mankind had to withdraw to the past and practice
severe asceticism, living in a simpler more natural state.
Fast forward 1800 years...
To ... the ozone hole...
First of all, it ain't a "hole."
It is a thinning of the normal
concentration of ozone above the Antarctic that occurs during
the last few weeks of the South Polar winter and disappears
with the arrival of spring, and it was discovered in the mid-1950s,
well before the common use of CFCs. Therefore, it has nothing
to do with CFCs. It is a natural phenomenon. Its size, density,
and location vary from year to year. In 1983, it seemed not
to arrive at all, but appeared finally out over the ocean, at
a tenth its predicted size.
From G.M.B. Dobson, the Brit
from Oxford who fathered atmospheric ozone measurement, writing
in the late 50s:
"... the values
in September and October 1956 were about 150 [Dobson] units
[50%] lower than expected. In November [South Polar springtime]
the ozone values suddenly jumped to those expected... .
It was not until
a year later [1957], when the same type of annual variation
was repeated, that we realized that the early results were
indeed correct and that Halley Bay showed a most interesting
difference from other parts of the world."
In 1990, corroborating Dobson,
two French observers, Rigaud/Leroy, (who, by the way, coined
the term, "hole"), republished their 1958 paper that showed
Dobson units at 120 at the tail end of the 1958 South Polar
winter. They remarked:
"... the thinning
[is] related to the Polar Vortex. ... and the recovery was
sharp and complete."
Both Dobson and Rigaud/Leroy
concluded that they'd detected a natural phenomenon, almost
certainly related to the South Polar Vortex. And, if one doesn't
know what the South Polar Vortex is, then one ought not form
opinions on ozone depletion.
To illustrate how these eco-sharks
deal from the bottom of the deck...
In 1991, Senator Gore chaired
Senate hearings on ozone depletion at which Susan Weiler, a
marine biologist by training but a environmental activist by
profession, testified that, because of ozone depletion:
"The ecosystem
of the Southern Hemisphere is on the verge of collapse."
By some inexplicable oversight,
Senator Gore neglected to invite anyone from the other side
to testify - for example, Dr. Osmond Holm-Hansen, a marine ecologist
who had studied the South Polar ecosystem for twenty years,
and who considers Susan Weiler to be "more a politician than
a scientist". Holm-Hansen would have testified:
"Unlike the
scare stories you hear some scientists spreading, the Antarctic
ecosystem is absolutely not on the verge of collapse due to
increased ultraviolet."
Or there's Dr. Alan Teramura,
University of Maryland, who for twenty years has studied the
effects of UV on plant life and is considered the world's leading
expert on the topic. In his studies, Teramura found a single
variety of soy bean that suffered from increased UV. The eco-zealots
took that unique result and repeated it endlessly as proof that
increased UV will destroy our food supply. However, eco-zealots
fail to mention that Teramura's studies also revealed that increased
UV has little measurable effect on most food plants, and some
varieties actually flourish under increased UV.
Summing up his years of study,
Teramura said:
"There is no
question that terrestrial life is adapted to UV ... Even at
a 20 percent decline in ozone we are not going to burn up
all the plants on the surface of the Earth and kill all the
people."
Teramura goes on to say that
the impact of the 5 percent decline in ozone over the next 100
years as predicted by the CFC/ozone hypothesis would be imperceptible
- masked by other effects like drought, pests, and frosts -
whose impacts are much greater.
About that "5 percent decline"
Teramura mentions... The original incarnation of the CFC/ozone
hypothesis had ozone levels falling by 70 percent by the year
2000. But, battered by the onslaught of contrary evidence, the
eco-zealots have retreated step-by-step to the point where the
latest incarnation of the hypothesis predicts a 5 percent reduction
over the next 100 years. (Again with the hundred years.)
Note:
-
The
arrival of "The Great Mother Wheel in the Sky", original
ETA, 2000, has also been set back to 2100.
The little I've mentioned here
against the CFC/ozone hypothesis barely scratches the surface;
there's a hell of a lot more where that came from. The upshot
of which is: there exists NO! evidence that CFCs or chlorine
molecules freed by the break-down of CFCs released in the Northern
Hemisphere migrate to the South Pole and destroy ozone there.
It is a myth. It is a lie. The
evidence against it is enormous. Among serious scientist familiar
with the data, the CFC/ozone hypothesis is dead as a dodo. Defunct!
Kaput!
From Dr. Melvyn Shapiro, Chief,
Meteorological Research, NOAA, Boulder, and a bitter critic
of the ozone hoax:
"What you have
to understand is that this is about money... If there were
no dollars attached to this game, you'd see it played on intellect
and integrity. When you say that the ozone threat is a scam,
you're not only attacking people's scientific integrity, you're
going after their pocketbooks as well. It's money, purely
money."
Dr. Fred Singer, a battle-scarred
vet of the war against eco-zealotry, takes a similar cynical
view:
"It's not difficult
to understand some of the motivations behind the drive to
regulate CFCs out of existence. For scientists: prestige,
more grants for research, press conferences, and newspaper
stories. Also the feeling that maybe they are saving the world
for future generations. For bureaucrats the rewards are obvious.
For diplomats there are negotiations, initializing of agreements
made, and - the ultimate - ratification of treaties. It doesn't
really matter what the treaty is about, but it helps if it
supports 'good things'. For all those involved there is, of
course, travel to pleasant places, good hotels, international
fellowship...."
Or there's Kary Mullis, Nobel,
Chemistry:
"The global
warmers ... predict that global warming is coming, and our
emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about
our role in the whole thing. If we aren't worried and guilty,
we might not pay their salaries. It's that simple."
Shapiro, Singer, and Mullis
are partially correct; some do it for money and/or glory. But
others do it for other reasons. What might those other reasons
be?
For the answer to that question,
read Environmentalism's Tainted
Roots.
Bernard Switalski
P.O. Box 486
Riverside, IL 60546
Voice: 708.442.7354
Email: switabern@juno.com
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